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Solomon Islands

838,645

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+19.45K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+90.4%from 440.47K
Life expectancy70.7 years2024
Fertility rate3.51births per woman · 2024
Urban population31.3%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Solomon Islands is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1436.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6459.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate26.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+21.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+1.63Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Solomon Islands look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 1.31M in 2050—59.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024819.2K
  2. 20501.31M
  3. 21001.85M
Median age in 205026.4years
Births in 205025.83Kduring the year
Deaths in 20507.64Kduring the year
Life expectancy74.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960139.69K
  2. 1970176.58K
  3. 1980238.14K
  4. 1990331.44K
  5. 2000440.47K
  6. 2010532.97K
  7. 2020744.5K
  8. 2025838.65K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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